bypass
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It said the agents had appeared to bypass safeguards in a security experiment it was running and gain unauthorised access to Hugging Face.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The crackdown is a signal "to its own tech leaders, more than to anybody else, that attempts to bypass national regulation will not be tolerated," Chang continued.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
“There’s no special reason they should be allowed to bypass the standard clinical trial system just because there’s a peptide fad driven by wellness influencers and telehealth firms.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
While the testing is voluntary, industry executives have said it would be risky to bypass the government review, particularly if there were safety concerns raised after the fact.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
There was no doubt that Benjamin would receive his Assignment to that field and would probably be permitted to bypass most of the training.
From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
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“That’s extremely ignorant, because it bypasses the uniqueness between the groups.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2026
Forum Statement: Omits any mention of data manipulation, interference with global reports or governance bypasses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Writing in the Guardian, philosophers Mark Alfano and Michał Klincewicz called this AI-generated “slopaganda” — and argued that it works precisely because the aesthetic presentation bypasses reasoning and hits our emotions directly.
From Salon ● May 24, 2026
That pipeline carries more than a million barrels of oil a day and provides Europe with a vital supply route that bypasses both Russian and Iranian territory.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2026
She bypasses the cookware, flips through the pages.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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The platform also did not "adequately" stop the sale of counterfeit products because its mandatory "brand authorisation" system "proved ineffective and understaffed. Therefore, traders easily bypassed this", the EU found.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Indonesia also has strict rules and processes for transnational adoptions, which the defendants are alleged to have bypassed.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Locke educators say evaluators have bypassed a crucial element: academic growth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
Friday’s action comes after reports that a user had bypassed the safety guardrails of Anthropic’s Fable 5, adding to worries about cyberattacks that have built up since the company began previewing Mythos earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
All the way upstairs they went, and when they got to the top, Franz bypassed the bedrooms, snuffled urgently, and pawed the door that led into the building hallway.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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The vague apprehensions of bypast years reviving at this crisis, some neighbours had been on the outlook for a catastrophe.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 by William Chambers
It's no mony months bypast; it was a lang courtship,—few folk kend the reason by Jenny and mysell.
From Old Mortality, Volume 2. by Sir Walter Scott
By it all Acts bypast, and especially those of the five Jameses, not agreeing with God's Word and contrary to the Confession, and 'wherethrow divers innocents did suffer,' were abolished and extinguished for ever.
From John Knox by A. Taylor Innes
But for these dozen or twenty years bypast we have preferred a narrow beat, snugly seated on a shelty, and pad the hoof on the hill no more.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
“A couple coaches just walk by,” he said of recruiters showing up at practices and bypassing him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Contempt resolutions generally would go through the full Senate, and bypassing that route would open fresh legal and political questions for President Donald Trump's administration.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
Starting Thursday morning, more than 50,000 migrants crossed into Ceuta, either by bypassing fences on land or attempting to swim along the coast.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
The latest disruption exposes the limits of bypassing the Middle East’s chokepoints.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Fadi and Mariam followed Noor, bypassing a group of women carrying an old bearded man with sunken, tearful eyes.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
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